EAIN FALL, DEWS, AND FEOSTS. 
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winter, and sweated profusely in her cotton fields in sum- 
mer. The average mean temperature of the year is 
about 62°. 
North Carolina. — The climate of this State is similar 
to that of Tennessee, though, from its position east of the 
Alleghany mountains, it is not quite so temperate. 
SECT. IV.— RAIN FALL, DEWS, AND FROSTS. 
The entire territory of the Southern States belongs to 
the region of frequent rains ; and, although there are fr.e^' 
quent droughts, as in all other parts of the United States, 
the rain is as equally distributed through the dilFerent 
seasons, and falls in as great quantity, as in any other^region 
of the globe lying in the warm zone. I . - 
The following table shows the comparative fall\of yain 
in the Northern and Southern Atlantic States : 
FALL OF EAm IN INCHES. 
STATIONS. 
Spring. 
Summer. 
Autumn. 
Winter. 
Year. 
Northern Atlantic Slcyps,. 
8.88 
10.05 
9.85 
10.61 
89.89 
Providence (average 28 years) . . 
Philadelphia (average 28 years). 
11.55 
iV.is 
11.33 
ii'.oi 
10.30 
10.52 
9! 63 
9.81 
39.71 
40. 
42.23 
42.83 
42. 
10.45 
9.89 
10.53 
10.15 
10.07 
41.20 
Southern Atlantic, Slojpe and Gulf 
States. 
11.45 
10.06 
7.52 
44.92 
5.90 
10.54 
9.56 
5.80 
49.48 
81.80 
12.86 
18.69 
13.71 
11.72 
56.98 
11.29 
17.28 
9.62 
12.71 
50.90 
15.08 
19.14 
12.48 
15.40 
62.10 
We have no regular wet and dry seasons, no period- 
